Salford City Council

Salford City Council
Salford City Council
Executive mayor elected every four years; Third of council elected three years out of four
	Coat of arms
Type
Type	Metropolitan district council of the City of Salford
Houses	Unicameral
Term limits	None
History
Founded	1 April 1974
Leadership
Executive mayor	Paul Dennett, Labour ; since 6 May 2016
Civic mayor	Councillor Karen Garrido ; since May 2016
Structure
Seats	60
Council political groups	Labour (49); Vacant seat, formerly Labour (1); Conservative (9); Independent (1);
Joint committees	Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel
Elections
Council voting system	First past the post
Mayor voting system	Supplementary vote
Last Council election	2014 (one third of councillors); 2015 (one third of councillors); 2016 (one third of councillors)
Next Council election	2018 (one third of councillors); 2019 (one third of councillors); 2020 (one third of councillors)
Motto
	Let the good (or safety) of the people be the supreme (or highest) law
Website
	www.salford.gov.uk

Salford City Council is the local authority of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in Salford. It is a constituent council of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

The directly elected mayor is Paul Dennett^[1] and the civic mayor for 2016-2017 is Councillor Karen Garrido.^[2]

The council is based at Swinton Civic Centre with additional offices in Eccles.

Some services are provided by Urban Vision, a public-private partnership formed in 2005 between SCC, Capita and Galliford Try.^[3]

Political composition

Since 1973 political control of the council has been held by the Labour Party.^[4]

Year	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Labour	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Lib Dems	style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Independent	style="background-color: Template:Community Action Party/meta/color; width: 3px;" \|	Community Action		Vacant seat
Sept 2017	49		9		0		1		0		1
2016	50		9		0		1		0		0
2015	52		8		0		0		0		0
2014	52		8		0		0		0		0
2012	52		8		0		0		0		0
2011	44		11		3		2		0		0
2010	39		13		5		1		2		0
2008	36		13		10		0		1		0
2007	44		8		8		0		0		0
2006	44		8		8		0		0		0
2004	44		8		8		0		0		0
2003	51		5		3		1		0		0
2002	52		6		2		0		0		0
2000	52		5		3		0		0		0
1999	56		4		0		0		0		0
1998	57		3		0		0		0		0

Wards

Worsley and Eccles South	Salford and Eccles	Blackley and Broughton
Little Hulton Walkden North Walkden South Boothstown and Ellenbrook Worsley Winton Barton Irlam Cadishead	Pendlebury Swinton North Swinton South Claremont Irwell Riverside Eccles Weaste and Seedley Langworthy Ordsall	Kersal Broughton This constituency also contains Higher Blackley, Crumpsall, Charlestown, Cheetham and Harpurhey in neighbouring Manchester City Council.

Councillors

Each ward is represented by three councillors.^[5]

Parliamentary constituency	Ward		Councillor	Party	Term of office
Blackley and Broughton West constituency	Broughton	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John Merry	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Charles McIntyre	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jim King	Labour	2016–20
	Kersal	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Ann-Marie Humphreys	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Arnold Saunders	Conservative	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Peter Connor	Labour	2016–20
Salford and Eccles constituency	Claremont	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Neil Reynolds	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Mike Pevitt	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Barbara Bentham	Labour	2016–20
	Eccles	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Michael Wheeler	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Lisa Stone	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Peter Wheeler	Labour	2016–20
	Irwell Riverside	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jane Hamilton	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Stephen Ord	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Stephen Coen	Labour	2016–20
	Langworthy	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John Warmisham	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Gina Reynolds	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Seat currently vacant		2016–20
	Ordsall	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Tanya Burch	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Peter Dobbs	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Ray Mashiter	Labour	2016–20
	Pendlebury	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Bernard Lea	Labour Co-operative	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	John Ferguson	Labour Co-operative	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Barry Warner	Labour	2016–20
	Swinton North	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Bill Hinds	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jim Dawson	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Derek Antrobus	Labour Co-operative	2016–20
	Swinton South	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Howard Balkind	Labour Co-operative	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Neil Watkin	Independent	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Heather Fletcher	Labour	2016–20
	Weaste & Seedley	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Ronnie Wilson	Labour Co-operative	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Paul Wilson	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Stephen Hesling	Labour	2016–20
Worsley and Eccles South constituency	Barton	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	David Jolley	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Michele Barnes	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John Mullen	Labour	2016–20
	Boothstown and Ellenbrook	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jillian Collinson	Conservative	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Robin Garrido	Conservative	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Bob Clarke	Conservative	2016–20
	Cadishead	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Christine Hudson	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Jimmy Hunt	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	John Walsh	Labour	2016–20
	Irlam	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Roger Jones	Labour Co-operative	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Peter Taylor	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Tracy Kelly	Labour	2016–20
	Little Hulton	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Colette Weir	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Kate Lewis	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Rob Sharpe	Labour	2016–20
	Walkden North	style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color"\|	Adrian Brocklehurst	Labour Co-operative	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Samantha Bellamy	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Brendan Ryan	Labour	2016–20
	Walkden South	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Les Turner	Conservative	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Iain Lindley	Conservative	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Richard Critchley	Labour	2016–20
	Winton	style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Margaret Morris	Labour	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Paula Boshell	Labour	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	David Lancaster	Labour	2016–20
	Worsley	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Graham Compton	Conservative	2014–18
		style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Chris Clarkson	Conservative	2015–19
		style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color"\|	Karen Garrido	Conservative	2016–20

References

^ "Councillor Paul Dennett". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
^ "Ceremonial Mayor of Salford". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
^ "About us". urbanvision.org.uk. Urban Vision.
^ "Salford". BBC News Online. 19 April 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
^ "Your Councillors". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

External links

Salford City Council

[1] "Councillor Paul Dennett". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 12 April 2017.

[2] "Ceremonial Mayor of Salford". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 12 April 2017.

[3] "About us". urbanvision.org.uk. Urban Vision.

[change-4] "Salford". BBC News Online. 19 April 2008. Retrieved 20 December 2009.

[5] "Your Councillors". sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk. Salford City Council. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

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